Intercultural Communication: A Requirement

CHAPTER 1
for the Interdependent Global Society

Clothing
Example manufactured
Individual Uniqueness Definition in Asia but
worn daily in
Travel and the US.
technology
Generalizations
The Interdependent connect people
Generalizing Globalization
Stereotypes 1 Global Society
worldwide in
real time.

Objectivity Developing Intercultural

Objectivity 4
Awareness
Ethnocentrism
Urbanization
Compromise

Compromise in Intercultural
Mass migration Intercultural integration
Communication
Raw materials
INTERCULTURAL World population Aging populations/declining
Not the Universal COMMUNICATION growth birthrates Water shortages
Solution
Food scarcities
Social Challenges Competition for
Pelagic resources
natural resources

Spark for Connection Ecological Environmental

Concerns changes/degradation

Creating
The Requirement for Humanitarian & Disease control
Interdependence 2
Intercultural Cooperation Legal Cooperation
Technology 3 Disaster relief
Risk of
International mishaps Cyber crime
Miscommunication
Transnational crime Intellectual property
Ethical Concerns
International legal system

Political Issues Scientific advancement ethics

Human rights issue

Weapons of mass destruction

Terrorism and piracy

Security Concerns
Peacekeeping missions
Sectarian and ethnic
Emerging threats
tensions

Renascent nationalism

Contested territorial
claims